C++ Inheritance of functions with same name

Question

I have the following class declarations:

class human
{
    public:
    void msg(){cout<<\"I am human\\n\";}
};
class John:public human 
{
    public:
    v         


        

Answer 1

"But doesnt John inherit msg() from human?"

Yes it does, but hides it with its own implementation.

"Also is there a way to access msg() of human?"

Yes, you need to explicitly state the class scope (as long human::msg() is in public scope as it was originally asked):

  John a;
  a.human::msg();
 // ^^^^^^^

The same syntax needs to be applied if you want to access human::msg() from within class John:

class John : public human {
    public:
    void msg() {cout<<"I am a John\n";}
    void org_msg() { human::msg(); }
};

John a;
a.org_msg();

or another alternative

John john;
human* h = &john;
h->msg();